One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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